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184 REMUNERATIVE WORE: TOR GENTLEWOMEN.
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* There Are Few More Satisfactory Occurr...
-wants sure pressing on the social body , which it is thought might in a measure relieve each other . It is said that , despite all that
has been done for the education of the poor , many schools , particularly in rural districts , are , and must be , in a very inefficient
state from the want of intelligent teachers , whose services they cannot secure under the existing regulationsand thatfrom the
, , same cause , there are no schools in many parishes where they are much needed .
On the other hand , the country is continually called on , in every variety of conjuration , to consider the lamentable condition of our
surplus female population . The want of the means of support in this quarter presseswe
are told , most heavily on those who have been brought up without , any view of maintaining themselves . Those who , trusting to the
chances of life , to parental provision , to marriage , to expected legacies _, to anything and everything but their own exertions
have passed unthinkingly and easily through youth , and now find , themselves on the threshold of middle lifeor it may be still further
advanced on their earthly pilgrimage , , without supply for their humblest wants , willing but unable to earn their subsistence .
May not a reciprocity of help be looked for here ? May not a large number of girls' and mixed schools be supplied from the
ranks of these applicants for work ? Of course it will not do to put any one into a situation of trust on no better recommendation
than the mere wish for it . Instances have been known where such a course has been followed with the happiest results _; powers have
been developed unknown to their possessor , undreamed-of qualifications have appeared at the bidding of necessity ; but it is not
justifiable to attest the to fitness run such of the a risk applicant in a case for the of j importance > roposed post . is Something wanting 1
. and in this consists the great difficulty in obtaining a first situation , , commonly felt by those who have had no preparation for any
settled employment . It will , therefore , be of some service if the class before us can be
shown to be possessed of materials which may be worked up into good and useful stuff , beneficial alike to themselves and others . It
will be opening a door of relief to many , if it should appear that they are specially qualified in many ways for that work which we
are told is languishing for want of labourers , the education of the poor .
Alarming accounts have been lately given of the want of " results , " as they are called , in existing schools . The principal j ) oint
dwelt on seems to be the large proportion of children in every school who do not ( as it is commonly termed ) " even learn to read . "
This is put forward as a token of utter failure . The child has not taken the first step on the ladder of learning—there are " no results . "
Now this dismal view of the case must not pass without question ;
_Tbut taking it . for the moment as granted , no one who has had much
184 Remunerative Wore: Tor Gentlewomen.
184 _REMUNERATIVE WORE : TOR GENTLEWOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/40/
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